Located quite some distance away from B5 (a safe distance in casesomething goes wrong) is the jump point, which is a device which creates an"exit-point" from hyperspace. It's tremendously powerful, allowing smallerships to use the system without lugging around the massive amount ofequipement and power sources to burst back in.

The area itself is several miles across. You go into one at point A, andemerge at point B. Big ships _ BIG ships _ can create their own entrancesand exits (which explains how the gates or jump points got somewhere), andthey construct the gates as exploration continues, leaving gates the way you'dleave bread crumbs.

At least, that's the theory.

Meanwhile, spent 6 hours watching tapes of actors auditioning,and sat inon some live auditions as well (the tapes were from New York). We have someREALLY good candidates. The hardest to cast, I figured, would be Delenn, formany reasons...but we may have lucked out right out of the _ um_ gate.

There are times when you see a face, and just go, "Nahhh, that ain't it"and fast-forward...but you really do feel for these actors, the work it takesto get in the front door.

Anyway, if we find nothing else, we've got strong prospects for at leasthalf our cast, and two weeks more to go on casting, so we're in very goodshape.